whew... wrap-up time

October 27, 2003 by Eric Richardson

A lot has happened, and I've been busy, so I'm going to wrap up a lot in this one post. The three midterms are in the past now, so that's good, but as usual the interesting things aren't school, so let's not dwell on that.

Last Thursday I ran sound at the Ragazzi Room for Matt Wertz. I had never heard of him before Wednesday, but it was a cool show and I really enjoyed his music. I had sort of an odd vantage point, actually sitting directly behind Matt while he was performing. Fun stuff.

Then, Friday a couple of us from the USC Waterski Team headed up over the grapevine to a ski lake a little bit south of Bakersfield for a tournament hosted by UCLA's team. Waterski tourneys are always a blast, so it was really good to get back out there. I didn't ski well, but I hadn't been on a ski in about a year, so I can't complain too much. Read on for more on the tourney... — Continue Reading...

halfway through

October 21, 2003 by Eric Richardson

So I've had two of three midterms for the day. They've been a mixed bag. One was pretty easy, one there was a bit I couldn't remember. I don't really know what to think about the one tonight... Too early to see.

Right now I'm sitting in COMM 202, browsing the wireless web in windows after failing to get my wireless card working with USC's wireless network in Linux. I've got the big step, wireless in Linux, going. Now it's just a matter of figuring out the right settings for USC's WEP encryption.

muah haha

October 20, 2003 by Eric Richardson

So right now I'm posting this completely wireless, from Linux, sitting on the couch in my apartment. That's cool for me, in and of itself, but the really cool part is that I don't have a wireless access point. Luckily, several other people in the building do and either a) aren't smart enough, or b) don't care enough to run WEP on theirs, thereby giving me free wireless in the apartment. Score...

mmm... wireless

October 20, 2003 by Eric Richardson

My laptop arrived today, so obviously I proceeded to waste time I didn't have starting to play with it. Right now I'm sitting on campus making use of USC's wireless ethernet to download Redhat 9. We have a USC mirror, so it's a bit faster than it would be in my apartment. That said, it would be faster still if I had remembered to bring an ethernet cable and could plug in. Oh well...

doh. crunch time.

October 16, 2003 by Eric Richardson

Just went to check my schedule, and on Tuesday I've got three midterms and a paper due. I can't say that I've kept on top of things this semester, so it'll be an interesting weekend for seeing if I can really get myself to put the pedal down and concentrate. On the plus side, the paper correlates pretty well with one of the midterms, so preparing one is also preparing for the other.